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Cummins, Lauren; Asempapa, Bridget – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
The role of teacher preparation programs is to ensure that candidates are effectively prepared in the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to be an effective educator. However, dispositions have always been a challenge to the field of teacher education, particularly in response to assessing dispositions and in answering the question; can…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Characteristics, Preservice Teachers
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
This "What Works Clearinghouse Procedures and Standards Handbook (Version 3.0)" provides a detailed description of the standards and procedures of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). The remaining chapters of this Handbook are organized to take the reader through the basic steps that the WWC uses to develop a review protocol, identify…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Guides, Intervention, Classification
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Mutlu, Akmer; Krosschell, Kristin; Spira, Deborah Gaebler – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2009
OKAim: The aim of this systematic review was to examine the literature on the effects of partial body-weight support treadmill training (PBWSTT) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) on functional outcomes and attainment of ambulation. Method: We searched the relevant literature from 1950 to July 2007. We found eight studies on the use of PWSBTT on…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Statistical Significance, Classification, Psychomotor Skills
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2008
This handbook describes the structure and processes that the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) uses for its reviews, presenting in one place all the standards the WWC currently uses to assess research. The handbook will be revised as new standards are developed and major new features are finalized. A distinguishing feature of the WWC is that it does…
Descriptors: Guides, Standards, Educational Research, Evaluation
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2011
With its critical assessments of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of education programs, policies, and practices (referred to as "interventions"), and a range of products summarizing this evidence, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is an important part of the Institute of Education Sciences' strategy to use rigorous and relevant…
Descriptors: Standards, Access to Information, Information Management, Guides
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Leech, Nancy L.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to examine economic significance as a fourth measure of significance. In addition to describing and operationalising the concept of economic significance, a typology of economic significance indices is presented, including an example of how to compute these measures, as well as how to utilise them in applied research.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Statistical Significance